Physical activity in relation to total, advanced, and fatal prostate cancer
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - Physical activity has been inconsistently related to total prostate cancer and few studies have examined whether this association varies by disease aggressiveness. Moore et al. (2008) examined physical activity in relation to total, advanced, and fatal prostate cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet...
Authors: Moore et al.
Bladder preservation in selected patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer by complete transurethral resection plus systemic chemotherapy
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - Many phase 2 bladder-sparing programmes using transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB) plus chemotherapy or radio-chemotherapy have been undertaken, but some controversies remain. Solsona et al. (2008) determined the efficacy of complete TURB plus three cycles of cisplatin-based...
Authors: Solsona et al.
Long-term survival after combined modality treatment in metastatic bladder cancer patients
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - De Vries et al. (2008) evaluated if combined treatment should be offered to bladder cancer patients presenting with supra-regional lymph node metastases only and a clinical complete or partial response after chemotherapy.
The authors identified 14 patients with supra-regional lymph node...
Authors: de Vries et al.
Metabolic and cardiovascular effects of androgen deprivation therapy
Monday, 29 September 2008 - Prostate cancer is the most common gender-specific malignancy in men in the USA. Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) is commonly used in the treatment of metastatic or recurrent prostate cancer. The use of ADT is increasing with the advocacy of adjuvant and neoadjuvant ADT for treating...
Authors: Hakimian et al.
Outcomes of patients after aborted radical cystectomy for intraoperative findings of metastatic disease
Monday, 29 September 2008 - Guzzo et al. (2008) assessed the clinical outcome of patients with bladder cancer who underwent attempted radical cystectomy (RC) with curative intent, but whose procedures were aborted due to intraoperative findings of metastatic disease, as the presence of metastatic disease at RC is...
Authors: Guzzo et al.
Muscle invasive bladder cancer in Upper Egypt: the shift in risk factors and tumor characteristics
Monday, 29 September 2008 - In Egypt, where bilharziasis is endemic, bladder cancer is the commonest cancer in males and the 2nd in females; squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the commonest type found, with a peculiar mode of presentation. Zarzour et al. (2008) identified and ranked the risk factors of muscle invasive...
Authors: Zarzour et al.
Metabolic syndrome, testosterone deficiency and erectile dysfunction never come alone
Monday, 29 September 2008 - In an opinion article, Yassin et al. (2008) discussed the association among metabolic syndrome, testosterone deficiency and erectile dysfunction.
Until a decade ago the ailments of elderly men, such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, lower urinary tract symptoms and...
Authors: Yassin et al.
Prognostic variables to predict cancer-related death in incidental renal tumours
Monday, 29 September 2008 - In a large multicentre series of incidental renal tumours, Bensalah et al. (2008) identified the key factors that could predict cancer-related deaths, as such tumours have a better outcome than symptomatic tumours and selected patients are increasingly being included in watchful-waiting...
Authors: Bensalah et al.
Simultaneous treatment of pelvic lymph nodes and bladder by intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Monday, 29 September 2008 - Sondergaard et al. (2008) implemented an intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) protocol for simultaneous irradiation of bladder and lymph nodes. The authors compared doses to normal tissue from IMRT and their previous conformal sequential boost technique.
Sixteen patients with urinary...
Authors: Sondergaard et al.
A systematic review of kidney transplantation from expanded criteria donors
Sunday, 28 September 2008 - During the past few years, there has been renewed interest in the use of expanded criteria donors (ECD) for kidney transplantation to increase the numbers of deceased donor kidneys available. More kidney transplants would result in shorter waiting times and limit the morbidity and mortality...
Authors: Pascual et al.
